32 Men and Things in Albany Two Centuries Ago. 



the liouse^^tlnit stood on the lower corner is represented to 

 have been elaborately finished compared with most of the 

 houses of the time, being wainscotted and ornamented 

 with tiles and carvings. It is found that this lot, nine rods 

 on Jonker street, was patented in 1667 to Cornelis Steen- 

 wyck, and that Capt. John Schuyler occupied 55 feet of it in 

 1680. In that year what is now Norton street was laid out, 



The Staats Hou^e, comer of State and Soath Pearl streets. 



and was to have been continued to Broadway. The opening 

 of this street extended the State street lots across the Eutten 

 kil southward which before bounded on that stream. 



Before Pearl street was opened to its present width, the 

 corner house, removed for that purpose, was long known 

 as Lewis's tavern. In one of these twin houses Madame 

 Schuyler, the American Lady of Mrs. Grant, resided, dur- 

 ing the time her house at the Flats was being rebuilt, and 



